Reference, Deixis and Perspective.Aspectual Readings of Italian Ecco- and French Voilà-Constructions

This paper provides an analysis of the aspectual properties of deictic-presentative constructions headed by It. ecco and Fr. voici/voilà. It will be shown that even though deictic pointing elements do not constitute verbs, they exhibit verb-like characteristics in some regards. As is the case with c...

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Main Author: Felix Tacke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2022-11-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/2233